Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies from the impacts of climate-driven extremes in weather.
After years of prolonged drought, recent storms resulted in the wettest three-week period on record in California. The storms have been followed by an unseasonably dry February, however, and the state could see a return to warm and dry conditions during the remaining weeks of the wet season – just as heavy rains in fall 2021 gave way to the driest January-March period in over 100 years.While recent storms have helped replenish the state’s reservoirs and boosted snowpack, drought
